Lawyers clashed in Parliament this week over whether Ottawa should fix — or completely abolish — its contentious immigration ban on “medically inadmissible” foreign nationals whose future health costs are expected to make “excessive demands” on the public purse.

On Nov. 23 the Commons Committee on Citizenship and Immigration will draft recommendations for reform to the Liberal government, after hearing somewhat conflicting advice this week from legal experts on how best to address s. 38(1)(c) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) — the...